GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the establishment of Avera Semiconductor LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary dedicated to providing custom silicon solutions for a broad range of applications. Avera Semi will leverage deep ties with GF to deliver ASIC offerings on 14/12nm and more mature technologies while providing clients new capabilities and access
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PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® IP solutions and MegaChips, a global semiconductor company specializing in ASIC Solution Services, today announced their collaboration to design a combined PCIe Controller IP and PHY IP solution. While the combination is currently targeting the TSMC 16nm process, the PCIe Controller/PHY solution will
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Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), today announced that the SoC Lab at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University as part of the HiPer Consortium project has successfully integrated Silicon Creations’ LC and ring PLLs (phase lock loop) intellectual property (IP) in its SoC1 chip implemented in TSMC
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ASICs stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuits, and refer to semiconductor solutions design for a particular application, as opposed to other solutions like Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) which can be programmed multiple times to perform a different functions. ASIC is also sometimes referred to as SoC (System on Chip).
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A new gold standard for electrical measurement in the emerging in vitro world of three dimensional models. That’s what Swiss medtech 3Brain has established by partnering with CSEM. Its Khíron chip enables fast, accurate intra-tissue measurement and continuous nutrient and oxygen supply through all tissue layers for the first time.
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“2017 was an unprecedented year for semiconductor industry”, comments Santosh Kumar, Director of Packaging, Assembly and Substrates at Yole Korea, part of Yole Développement (Yole). “The market grow by 21.6% year-to-year to reach record of almost US$412 billion”. Under this dynamic context, the advanced packaging industry is playing a key role, offering huge opportunities of
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